The Short Version: The Blue Train on Feb 6, 2012The men who did the fighting in France -- 1914-1918 -- may have been glad enough to escape the Continent. But among civilians, the four-year war-quarantine on the British home front created a mania for travel, preferably to hot places.

Awesome review in the Times for the Minn Orch on Feb 2, 2012Maybe it's like asking Dir Edmund Hilary why he climbed Everest? "Because it is there!" Vanska recorded Sibelius on the same label a number of years ago in Finland and now he does it again - and was it worth...